06 Where is the town/village Xyz? (genealogy - German)
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This article is from the German Genealogy FAQ, by Jim Eggert EggertJ@crosswinds.net with numerous contributions by others.
06 Where is the town/village Xyz? (genealogy - German)
The best places to look are:
online:
Genealogisches Orts Verzeichnis (GOV)
For modern and historical Germany. Gives geographical,
historical, archival, and bibliographical information.
<http://gov.genealogy.net/>
GEOserv
For modern Germany only.
Send email to geo@genealogy.net with the message body
the name of the village you are looking for. Further
instructions can be received by using INFO as the name
of a village, or from the German genealogy server at
<http://www.genealogy.net/misc/geoserv.html>
Yahoo Routenplaner
<http://de.maps.yahoo.com/>
Expedia
<http://maps.expedia.com/>
GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
For modern placenames anywhere outside the USA.
<http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html>
ShtetlSeeker, for central and eastern Europe,
gives German and local names
<http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm>
Deutsche Ortschaften im 19. Jahrhundert,
incomplete, but covers Germany, Poland, Hungary, Rumania
<http://www.genealswiss.net/>
Kartenmeister
For formerly German places east of the Oder and Neisse rivers.
<http://www.kartenmeister.com/>
Atlas des deutschen Reiches
1883 edition by Ravenstein with index. View at 400%.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/
atlas:
Falk (formerly RV) Autoatlas (volumes for Germany and Poland)
Available for DM30 in German bookstores or from
Interlink Bookshop, 3840A Cadboro Bay Road,
Victoria, B.C. V8N 4G2 Canada, +1 (800) 747-4877,
<http://www.interlinkbookshop.com/>
maps:
Excellent modern and historical maps are published by the
German Landesvermessungsbeh"orden (geodetic survey offices)
<http://www.genealogy.net/misc/maps-lva.html>,
the Bundesamt f"ur Kartographie und Geod"asie in Berlin
<http://www.ifag.de/>
the Bundesamt f"ur Landestopographie in Switzerland
<http://www.swisstopo.ch/>
the Bundesamt f"ur Eich- und Vermessungswesen in Austria
<http://www.bev.gv.at/>
and others, and are available at German bookstores or through
Interlink Bookshop.
The FEEFHS has an online maproom at
<http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html>
Old city and town maps are available from Generations Press at
<http://www.generationspress.com/catalogs/germany.html>
gazetteers:
1912 "Meyers Ortslexikon" (Meyers Gazetteer)
For towns in Germany or lost by Germany after either 20th-
century world war. Probably at your local LDS FHC.
"Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und
Neisse" (Gazetteer of Localities East of the Oder and Neisse)
If the town was lost by Germany after the Second World
War, this will give you the current name.
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